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Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón says he'll make a decision on the Menendez brothers' resentencing by the end of this week, citing the growing public push to release the brothers as his reasoning. Gascón previously announced in October that his office was reviewing the 2023 habeas corpus petition filed by Erik and Lyle Menendez, which contains new evidence and asks for a resentencing of the brothers who are currently serving life in prison without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez.

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00:00Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascogne says he'll make a decision on the Menendez

00:04brothers' resentencing by the end of this week, citing the growing public push to release the

00:08brothers as his reasoning. Gascogne previously announced that his office was reviewing the

00:132023 habeas corpus petition filed by Eric and Lyle Menendez, which contains new evidence and

00:18asks for a resentencing of the brothers who are currently serving life in prison without parole

00:22for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. The DA had previously set a

00:28hearing date for November 29th. But speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Gascogne, who is currently up for

00:33re-election, shared that he has moved up his timeline. He told Jake Tapper,

00:37I plan to have a decision by the end of this week, which is what I promised when we started getting a

00:41lot of inquiries. We had been looking at this case for over a year, by the way. We had a court time

00:46late November on the habeas, but given the public attention to this case, I've tried to come up with

00:50a decision earlier than that, and I will. The announcement followed the recently renewed

00:54interest in the decades-old case, thanks in large part to the hit Netflix drama series from Ryan

00:58Murphy, Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story, as well as the subsequent Netflix documentary that

01:03interviewed the brothers together for the first time in decades. The newly uncovered evidence that

01:08led to the habeas petition includes a recovered letter written by a then-17-year-old Eric to his

01:12cousin in 1988, eight months before the murders, that corroborates the brothers' self-defense claims of

01:18ongoing abuse from their father, as well as an abuse claim from a new witness, a member of the

01:23Puerto Rican boy band Menudo that was signed to RCA Records, where Jose was an executive.

01:27Last week, Eric and Lyle Menendez's extended family held a press conference calling for

01:31Gascon's help to overturn the brothers' convictions or resentence them. Their aunt,

01:36Joan Anderson Vandermolen, Kitty Menendez's sister, was one of the family members who spoke in front of

01:41the downtown Los Angeles courthouse.

01:42The truth is, Lyle and Eric were failed by the very people who should have protected

01:47them, by their parents, by the system, by society at large. As their aunt, I had no idea of the

01:58extent of the abuse they suffered at the hands of my brother-in-law. None of us did. But looking back,

02:07I can see the fear and tension that their father had instilled on them. They were just children,

02:14children who could have been protected and were instead brutalized in the most horrific ways.

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